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comet
(kɒmɪt)
Word forms: plural comets
countable noun
A comet is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun.
Halley's Comet is going to come back in 2061.
comet in British English
(ˈkɒmɪt)
noun
a celestial body that travels around the sun, usually in a highly elliptical orbit: thought to consist of a solid frozen nucleus part of which vaporizes on approaching the sun to form a gaseous luminous coma and a long luminous tail
Derived forms
cometary (ˈcometary) or cometic (kɒˈmɛtɪk) adjective
Word origin
C13: from Old French comète, from Latin comēta, from Greek komētēs long-haired, from komē haircomet in American English
(ˈkɑmɪt)
noun
a small, frozen mass of dust and gas revolving around the sun in a parabolic or elliptical orbit: as it nears the sun it vaporizes, forming a coma and, usually,a long tail of ions that points away from the sun
Derived forms
cometary (ˈcometˌary) (ˈkɑməˌtɛri) adjective or coˈmetic (koʊˈmɛtɪk)
Word origin
ME comete < OE cometa & OFr comete, both < L cometa < Gr komētēs, lit., long-haired (star) < komē, lit., hair of the headImage ofcomet
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British English: comet /ˈkɒmɪt/ NOUN
A comet is an object that travels around the sun leaving a bright trail behind it.
Halley's Comet is going to come back in 2061.
- American English: comet
- Arabic: نـَجْمٌ ذُو ذَنَب
- Brazilian Portuguese: cometa
- Chinese: 彗星
- Croatian: komet
- Czech: kometa
- Danish: komet
- Dutch: komeet
- European Spanish: cometa astro
- Finnish: komeetta
- French: comète
- German: Komet
- Greek: κομήτης
- Italian: cometa
- Japanese: 彗星
- Korean: 혜성
- Norwegian: komet
- Polish: kometa
- European Portuguese: cometa
- Romanian: cometă
- Russian: комета
- Latin American Spanish: cometa Astro
- Swedish: komet
- Thai: ดาวหาง
- Turkish: kuyruklu yıldız
- Ukrainian: комета
- Vietnamese: sao chổi
Chinese translation of 'comet'
comet
(ˈkɔmɪt)
n (c)
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彗星
(huìxīng) (颗, kē)
related words
related phobia cometophobia
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